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June 20, 2014
Joanna Bourke
The History of Pain Is Racist, Sexist, and Classist
June 4, 2014
Dan Packel
Horse Racing Can't Be Saved, Even If California Chrome Wins the Triple Crown
January 30, 2014
Ryan Kearney
The Only Thing Worse Than the Super Bowl Is the Puppy Bowl
Against the tyranny of cuteness
January 27, 2014
Noah Chestnut
The Next Penicillin May Come From Sloths
Scientists marvel at what grows on sloth hair
January 24, 2014
Ian Steadman
Scientists Have Discovered 11,000-Year-Old Sexually Transmitted Dog Cancer
November 25, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Hollywood's Animal-Cruelty Problem Must Look Familiar to the NFL and U.S. Military
July 30, 2013
Delphine Rodrik
The Seven Cruelest—and Legal—Abuses of Animals in the U.S.
May 10, 2013
Ryan Kearney
I Hate Dogs for What Their Popularity Says About Us
February 22, 2013
Meehan Crist
Rats Who Giggle
The new world of animal cognition

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